First-ever pho museum opens in Ho Chi Minh
The museum features three floors offering visitors a journey through pho's 100-year history via a souvenir area, show kitchen, cinema room, and cultural exhibition space.
Culture
Nepal’s Magar community celebrates Maghe Sankranti with cultural festivities
The festival is observed as an occasion for family reunions, meetings between maternal and extended relatives, the exchange of greetings and the sharing of joy.
Korean food wasn’t always this spicy. The rise of heat explained
Korea’s relationship with chili peppers is surprisingly recent. According to historians, chili peppers arrived on the peninsula only about 400 years ago.
Matchmade couples in Malaysia come together for Hindu harvest festival Ponggal
Ponggal, celebrated in mid-January, is the Tamil harvest festival symbolising gratitude, renewal and the enduring value of tradition.
Iconic Chinese chili sauce resonates with diverse appetites
Lao Gan Ma has today become a symbol of Chinese culinary heritage.
Bringing Vietnamese heroines to life with AR
By combining augmented reality with storytelling, Vietnamese Female Heroes brings legendary women from Vietnam’s past off the page and onto the screen through vivid animations…
105 Buddha images unearthed in Laos’ Champasak
The statues were discovered on Sunday by 13-year-old Souksavanh Saeng-aloun, who noticed part of a clay jar protruding from the soil while playing near her home. Using a shovel,…
Beneath a modern Chinese metropolis, an ancient capital emerges
Major archaeological findings at the Dongyuan Ancient City site have unveiled the well-preserved remains of a city from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), offering an unprecedented…
Old Dhaka readies for kite-flying festival Sakrain as kites, lanterns, and memories take flight
By day, the sky is expected to fill with colourful kites, while from evening until midnight, the Buriganga riverbank areas will glow with fireworks and flying lanterns.
What food tells us about Filipino psychology
So what makes food “Filipino”? It is the fact that Filipinos adapt it to their particular tastes, and that they enjoy it together.